Ten on Tuesday- good and bad

1- I'm taking Brayden to Disneyland next week!! I'm going along with my sister's family. Her husband will be flying down for work and Nicki and I will drive down to meet him. Three kids in the backseat of a car for 12 hours- should be interesting, right? Really, though, I'm excited to have the opportunity to have another vacation this year inexpensively.

2- You all know I love me some Jon Stewart- Here's a clip showing how wrong some of the "reports" and "statistics" that are being said about Planned Parenthood are.

3-  Brayden is saying "uv you!" Only when he's prompted so far, but I still love it. He's my angel, he sure is.

4- I saw this story online and it makes me so mad. It is okay if a boy wants his nails painted. In fact, Brayden's nails are painted right now. He saw my blue nails and wanted his own. Let kids enjoy things without forbidding things because of gender stereotypes.
5- I'm still reading and loving Bossypants. I'm actually trying to read it slowly so I can enjoy it longer. Here's just a sample of Tina Fey's awesomeness- "Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes."

6- I follow Parenting magazine on Twitter, and today they quoted Jumpstart organization as saying that "Kindergarten teachers can predict with 90% accuracy which children will graduate." If this is true, and I don't doubt it... why on earth are we not putting more funding into early intervention and training for teachers?

7- This quote I found on Pinterest is so me. "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." I'm in no way saying that I'm in the same league as Einstein, but I do love my curiosity.

8- Parenting also mention this during the Mom Congress they are having this week- A child in an average family on welfare hears 62,000 words/week vs. 215,000 words for a professional family. This ties into education like #6. Parents need help too, especially low-income parents.

9- I love the lyrics to this song by Pink.
10- I'm not going to say anything specific, but a weird thing related to my new job happened this week. Someone broke the law, and I got to sit and listen to them talk about other people breaking the law and what their punishment should or should not be. I shouldn't be surprised, what with me writing government stories and all.